It is becoming more apparent that the MHSAA state high school football championships are leaving Jackson.

Multiple sources with direct knowledge of the MHSAA's plans said that the December championships will likely rotate among Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Southern Miss, barring any late changes.

Since 1992, the MHSAA has held its football state championships at Jackson's Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium.

The MHSAA's executive director Don Hinton has not confirmed that the championships are leaving Jackson but indicated an announcement on the future of the football championships should come out soon.

The sources said that Mississippi State and Ole Miss will split hosting duties in the new five-year rotation, which is set to begin this December and will rotate yearly between Starkville and Oxford from 2014 through 2017.

It's believed that Southern Miss will host the state championship in 2018, as well as the Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Classic in 2015 and 2017.

NEMissPreps.com reported Thursday that the MHSAA has plans in place for a six-year rotation that would allow Southern Miss to potentially host the games in 2020, though the sources said that a five-year rotation is more likely.

This will be the first time since its inception in 1988 that the AL-MS All-Star Classic will be played in Mississippi, an event organized by the Mississippi Association of Coaches.

According to NCAA rules, an All-Star game is only allowed to be played on a college campus if it is hosted by a scholastic entity. The MHSAA has stepped forward and agreed to host the AL-MS All-Star Classic every odd year beginning in 2015.

"Without Don Hinton and the MHSAA, the MAC could not have gotten the (all-star) game to Mississippi," Johnny Mims, the executive director of the MAC, said. "I have been working on getting the games here for the last 10 years."